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Heliomeris Multifloranutt SHOWY GOLDENEYE Heliomeris multiflora Nutt. Asteraceae – Aster family Corey L. Gucker & Nancy L. Shaw | 2018 ORGANIZATION NOMENCLATURE Heliomeris multiflora Nutt., hereafter referred to as Names, subtaxa, chromosome number(s), hybridization. showy goldeneye, belongs to the Heliantheae tribe of the Asteraceae or Aster family (Schilling 2006). NRCS Plant Code. HEMU3 (USDA NRCS 2017). Range, habitat, plant associations, elevation, soils. Subtaxa. The Flora of North America recognizes three varieties: brevifolia (Greene ex. Wooton & Standl.) Yates, multiflora Nutt., and nevadensis (A. Life form, morphology, distinguishing characteristics, reproduction. Nelson) Yates (Schilling 2006). Synonyms. Gymnolomia brevifolia Green ex. Growth rate, successional status, disturbance ecology, importance to Wooton & Standl., Gymnolomia nevadensis A. animals/people. Nelson, and Viguiera multiflora (Nutt.) S.F. Blake (Schilling 2006). Current or potential uses in restoration. Common Names. Showy goldeneye, little sunflower, many-flowered sunflower, mountain sunflower, rosinweed (USDA FS 1937). Seed sourcing, wildland seed collection, seed cleaning, storage, Chromosome Number. Chromosome numbers are testing and marketing standards. 2n = 16, 18 for varieties brevifolia and multiflora (Keil and Pinkava 1976; Welsh et al. 1987) and 2n = 16, 18, or 32 for variety nevadensis (Solbrig et al. Recommendations/guidelines for producing seed. 1972; Hickman 1993; Schilling 2006). Hybridization. Showy goldeneye hybrids with other species were not reported in the literature. Recommendations/guidelines for producing planting stock. Recommendations/guidelines, wildland restoration successes/ DISTRIBUTION failures. Showy goldeneye is a western species. Variety Primary funding sources, chapter reviewers. multiflora is the most widely distributed, occurring in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Variety nevadensis is more southerly, occurring in Bibliography. California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and as far south as Jalisco, Mexico. Variety brevifolia occurs in Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico (Schilling 2006). Variety multiflora is found at higher Select tools, papers, and manuals cited. elevations or in moister habitats than variety nevadensis where their distributions overlap Heliomeris multiflora Nutt. Heliomeris multifloraNutt.. 1 (Cronquist 1994). In Montana, variety multiflora Rocky Mountains and along the border between is primarily found in the southern part of the sagebrush and pinyon-juniper zones in the state (USDA FS 1937). In Utah, variety multiflora western part of the state. Dominant overstory occurs in all counties, variety nevadensis occurs vegetation in the type was Gambel oak (Quercus in Grand, Juab, Uintah, and Washington counties, gambelii), mountain snowberry (Symphoricarpos and variety brevifolia occurs only in Beaver oreophilus), and Saskatoon serviceberry County (Welsh et al. 1987; USDA NRCS 2017). In (Amelanchier alnifolia) (Costello 1944). Showy California, variety nevadensis is found east of the goldeneye occurred in 7 of 15 Saskatoon Sierra Nevada range (Hickman 1993). serviceberry mountain brush stands growing near Victor in eastern Idaho. In this vegetation type, Habitat and Plant Associations. Showy showy goldeneye cover was 1 to 3% (Major and goldeneye is considered common over its range Rejmanek 1992). In Jackson Hole Wildlife Park and locally abundant across a broad altitudinal in Wyoming, showy goldeneye was abundant in range from valley grasslands to spruce (Picea hillside quaking aspen woodlands and common in spp.) forests (USDA FS 1937). It is common big sagebrush shrublands. Hillside quaking aspen along roadsides (Figs. 1 and 2) and on open, dry stands were relatively open, xeric, and occurred on to moderately moist slopes receiving annual mostly south-facing slopes with rapidly draining precipitation of 18 to 26 inches (450 to 650 mm) soils. Showy goldeneye was not found in densely (Shaw 1958; Andersen and Holmgren 1976; shaded, mesic quaking aspen stands occurring on Cronquist 1994; Tilley 2012). Showy goldeneye level terrain (Reed 1952). is common in basin big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata subsp. tridentata), mountain big Variety associations. Variety nevadensis is sagebrush (A. t. subsp. vaseyana), pinyon-juniper generally found in drier and lower elevation (Pinus-Juniperus spp.), mountain brush, and habitats than varieties multiflora and brevifolia, quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) communities although there is overlap (Welsh et al. 1987; (Shaw and Monsen 1983). It is also a common Cronquist 1994; Stevens and Monsen 2004a). species in the tall forb rangeland type generally Variety multiflora often occurs in sagebrush, found at 6,300 to 9,000 feet (1,900-2,700 m) along pinyon-juniper and other woodland types, forests, streams, near springs, in forest openings, and and riparian sites. Variety nevadensis is also found in shrubland, woodland, and forest understories in sagebrush and pinyon-juniper vegetation, but it from the southern Wasatch range in Utah north to is sometimes found in saltbush (Atriplex spp.) and southern Montana (Shiflet 1994). blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) communities (Welsh et al. 1987; Cronquist 1994). In montane habitats, variety brevifolia is often found in shaded areas of canyons and woodlands; variety multiflora along roadsides, on rocky valley slopes, and in open woodlands; and variety nevadensis along roadsides and on dry, rocky slopes (Schilling 2006). Figure 1. Showy goldeneye growing in a forest opening along a roadside in Utah. Photo: USDI BLM UT931 SOS. Showy goldeneye is abundant or frequent in shrubland and woodland types in Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho. In Colorado, it was common Heliomeris multiflora nevadensis in a browse-shrub type occurring between Figure 2. var. in sagebrush grasslands and forests on the east side of the along a roadside in Nevada. Photo: USDI BLM NV040 SOS. 2 Heliomeris multiflora Nutt. Elevation. Showy goldeneye occurs at elevations ranging from 3,000 to 11,800 feet (900-3,600 DESCRIPTION m) (Hickman 1993; Cronquist 1994; Stevens and Monsen 2004a). Variety nevadensis is found at the Showy goldeneye is a multi-stemmed perennial lowest elevations in this range (Hickman 1993) and that develops from a branched, somewhat woody multiflora at the highest (Cronquist 1994). Variety caudex. The root system ranges from a short brevifolia is found from 7,900 to 9,800 feet (2,400- taproot to an almost fibrous network (USDA FS 3,000 m) (Schilling 2006). In California, variety 1937; Cronquist 1994; Schilling 2006). Plants often nevadensis occurs from 4,000 to 7,900 feet produce adventitious buds in the first growing (1,200-2,400 m) (Munz and Keck 1973; Hickman season (Schilling 2006). Stems are slender and 1993). In Utah, variety multiflora occurs from wiry, branched, up to 51 inches (130 cm) tall, and 4,400 to 9,400 feet (1,340-2,870 m) and variety terminate in yellow flowers (Fig. 3) (USDA FS 1937; nevadensis from 4,500 to 7,000 feet (1,370-2,135 Andersen and Holmgren 1976; Schilling 2006). m) (Welsh et al. 1987). Stems range from hairless to having straight, Soils. Showy goldeneye occurs on shallow to stiff, appressed hairs (Schilling 2006). Leaves are deep, basic to acidic soils ranging from moist to opposite or alternate, linear to egg-shaped, and dry with heavy clay to sandy or gravelly textures range from 0.4 to 3.5 inches (1-9 cm) long and up (USDA FS 1937; Clary et al. 1968; Stevens and to 1.1 inches (2.8 cm) wide. Leaves are subsessile Monsen 2004a). In subalpine vegetation on or with short petioles, entire to partly serrate the Wasatch Plateau in Utah, showy goldeneye and weakly 3-nerved with glands dotting the was most common at sites between mesic and undersides (USDA FS 1937, Craighead et al. 1963; xeric (Ellison 1954). In the Coconino National Welsh et al. 1987; Cronquist 1994; Schilling 2006). Forest near Flagstaff, Arizona, showy goldeneye Leaf characteristics are useful in distinguishing frequency was greatest (33%) in woodland varieties (USDA FS 1937; Schilling 2006). openings where soil moisture was 7.3%, which was significantly lower than in woodland sites with greater canopy cover (P < 0.05) (Abella and Springer 2006). Soil depths vary in showy goldeneye habitats. On the Mancos Shale barrens in southwestern Colorado, showy goldeneye occurred in plots with soil depths of 2 inches (5 cm) or less (Silva and Ayers 2016). In twoneedle pinyon-Utah juniper (Pinus edulis-Juniperus osteosperma) vegetation on No Man’s Land Mesa near Kanab, Utah, showy goldeneye was more abundant on upland shallow breaks than upland sands. Shallow breaks had steeper slopes (5-30%) and occupied shallower, better-drained, very fine, sandy loam soils than upland sands with gentle slopes (1-10%) and deep, loamy, fine sandy soils. Both sites were Heliomeris multiflora multiflora primarily north-facing (Mason et al. 1967). Showy Figure 3. var. growing in Utah. goldeneye was common in subalpine Thurber’s Photo: USDI BLM UT933 SOS. fescue (Festuca thurberi) grasslands in western Colorado’s White River National Forest where well- drained loam soils ranged from shallow to deep (Klemmedson 1956). Plants produce numerous (6-30+), sunflower-like flower heads (Fig 4) measuring up to 1.5 inches Although described as tolerant of acidic and (3.8 cm) across with enlarged, rounded bases with basic soils (Stevens and Monsen 2004a), showy two unequal rows of densely hairy; bracts (USDA goldeneye occurred (0.05% cover, 35.3% FS 1937; Craighead
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